Avian influenza in cats should be closely monitoredThe UN Food and Agriculture Organization has recommended that in areas where the H5N1 virus has been found in poultry or wild birds, cats should be separated from infected birds until the danger has passed (Source: FAO).

Indonesia stops sharing bird flu samplesIndonesia has stopped sharing samples of the H5N1 virus with the rest of the world and will instead send them exclusively to a US drug manufacturer Baxter in return for technical assistance in producing a vaccine (Source: SciDev.Net).

Two more Indonesians have bird fluTwo more Indonesians were confirmed to have bird flu: a 15-year-old girl from Jakarta and a 30-year-old man from West Java who lived in an area where many poultry had died (Source: CIPRAP).

Philippine government budgets US$2.5 million to fight bird fluThe Philippine government has earmarked US$2.5 million to fight bird flu in 2007 by monitoring the risk of infection from migratory birds, upgrading laboratories and building up rapid-action capability in case of an outbreak (Source: Associated Press).

Bird flu can infect people via upper airwayScientists have found that the H5N1 bird flu virus can infect cells in humans' upper airway, and that they don't have to penetrate deep into the lungs to cause an infection (Source: Reuters).